Politics Bernie Sanders Again Attacks Amazon — This Time Pulling In The Washington Post The newspaper's editor responded, accusing Sanders of peddling a "conspiracy theory" about the influence of the paper's owner, Jeff Bezos, who is also the founder and CEO of Amazon. Domenico Montanaro
Politics Bernie's wrong, fact-checkers say: Amazon is paying taxes One of Seattle's largest employers, online retaiAmazon ... was a frequent target during this week's debates ... among Democratic presidential candidates. Derek Wang
Technology Tech Firms To Face Lawmakers Over Antitrust, Digital Currency Lawmakers in the Senate and House will question lobbyists and officials from Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple on an array of issues, including whether they're so big they stifle competition. Aarti Shahani Avie Schneider
Business Majority of U.S. households are Amazon Prime members Amazon’s Prime Day began in 2015 as a sale day for Prime members, who were then a fraction of American consumers. Now the majority of households in the US are Prime members, says Andrew Lipsman, an analyst at New York-based eMarketer. Carolyn Adolph
Technology Amazon is offering 100,000 warehouse workers tech training Amazon plans to invest $700 million to train a third of its U.S. workforce for higher-skilled jobs. The company acknowledged that workers could use their new skills to seek jobs outside Amazon. Amy Scott
Food Using Food Stamps For Online Grocery Shopping Is Getting Easier Walmart is expanding a program for food stamp recipients to buy groceries online and pick them up in stores. It's the latest move to give them more options in the era of online shopping. Amy Scott
Politics How an Amazon pledge figures in the politics of housing Amazon and Microsoft this week pledged $5 million each to build housing for homeless people in the Seattle area. Is there a political effect of this kind of corporate action? Angela King
Politics Amazon: Government should hurry up and regulate facial recognition The head of Amazon Web Services says he wants the federal government to regulate facial recognition technology. Carolyn Adolph
Business Amazon, Microsoft back new push to house the homeless in Seattle Some of the Seattle area’s biggest businesses are backing a $75 million fund-raising effort by Plymouth Housing to build homes for 800 homeless people. Joshua McNichols Derek Wang
Business In a big shift, Amazon gives security contract to union firms Security officers at Amazon have long protested their working conditions. Today they learned that is about to change. They’re joining a union, and it’s all because of Amazon. Carolyn Adolph
